Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali earlier said he had considered quitting after the Abu Dhabi debacle.

"I asked myself if it was right or not to stay. It seemed a reflection I had to do, a responsible one. I'm not attached to the hot seat," Domenicali told La Repubblica.

"However, I reached the conclusion that to resign would have been an error."

He said he had not feared the sack but did not sleep for two days after the race.

Domenicali, whose team will unveil their 2011 car at the end of January after it passed a series of mandatory crash tests last month, is now raring to go for the season having admitted Red Bull were "objectively" quicker than the Italians last year.

"I know the team and I think I am the right person to capitalise best on what we have done in these months," he said.

"From a methodology point of view, at Maranello we have changed almost everything and I'm certain that soon we will see the results of all this work."

The sport's most successful team, which finished a distant third overall last year with Alonso and Brazilian Felipe Massa, said their factory was fully back to work after the Christmas break.

Alonso and Massa will take part in a media event with Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi, now with Ducati, in the Dolomites next week.